Author: C McClain Morris, Jr.
Date: 22:50:28 08/11/03
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On August 12, 2003 at 00:46:37, C McClain Morris, Jr. wrote: >On August 11, 2003 at 22:35:44, Brian Thomas wrote: > >>I suppose that it may be possible (any software may have exploits) although I >>suspect if you're hooked up to the internet, this was the cause, not your >>connection to Playchess. This is a fairly new exploit: if you haven't patched >>it, do so... >> >>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html >> >>I believe (although I may be wrong on this) that you need to have certain ports >>open, so are you behind a firewall/NAT? >> >>Brian > >To my regret I had my firewall turned off, and that was the dumb thing on my >part. Thanks for the above link. I noticed at antivirus.com that the virus about 9 hours old according to statistics and has infected 548 comps world wide at the time of this writing. I am convinced that I got this virus while playing on playchess as i watched a non-response to my first move by kissos-Shredder 7.04 for 2 minutes in a 3 minute blitz + 2 game, then his comp finally made a move. I (Fritz 7) won that game by the way. At the completion of this game the DOS attack had already been run. Well, back to firewalling and I've now put Pc-cillin back on my comp. Thanks for the info Brian.
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